I revisited a very old recipe-book today. A little bored of baking cakes and pies, I decided to look at different kinds of dessert for a change. So I took out my little green book that’s falling to bits – a book called Refrigerator Recipes. I remember liking the book very much because of its attention to detail. Today, it made me smile once more because of how it begins with the very basics. The first chapter is titled ‘Buying a Refrigerator’.
I was trying to make rogan josh the other day and it requires a lot of ingredients and a lot of patience. Valiantly, I followed the recipe I found online one step at a time. I reached the end, the stuff is fully cooked and then I read the last line – check for salt. I was FUMING! What does she mean check for salt? There was no salt at all in the meat to check for it. What did she think, I was a genius cook who would know that salt has to be added somewhere in between the lines of her recipe? Thankfully the first time I try out a new dish, I make a very small amount.
😀 I also hate it when cake recipes end with ‘bake in a preheated oven’. Why can they not tell me to preheat in the very beginning?